Re: Screenshots, frame shots straight from Emacs

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 00:04, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> Jean Louis wrote:
>> As you like screenshots, here is one way to generate Emacs
>> frame shots straight from Emacs without using external
>> programs

that one requires GUI emacs

> (defun dump (desc)
>   (interactive "sdescription: ")
>   (message nil)
>   (let ((file (format "~/%s.png" desc)))
>     (shell-command (format "sudo fbgrab %s" file))
>     (shell-command (format "sudo chown %s %s" user-login-name file))
>     (shell-command (format "sudo chgrp %s %s" user-login-name file)) ))

the above one requires external programs

this one works with plain console emacs:
https://logand.com/sw/emacs-framebuffer/file/emacs-framebuffer.el.html#l755